Nanotechnology is a form of bullshit used by advertisement firms to either make people believe their hair/skin products are magical, or to make investors give funding on the impressions a product will contain magical robots. Note the emphasis on "magical".

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From as early as 120AD, practitioners of bullshit in all forms of science and medicine have invented terms in order to make lots of money off of desperate people. Notable examples include Homeopathy and the Black Death.

The idea of nanotechnology was coined by Richard Feynman in 1965, but was popularised by Eric Drexler in his popular work of fiction, Engines of Creation which he somehow managed to get away with using as his Ph.D. thesis for MIT. Drexlers work is the one fanboys tend to drum up instead of Feynman, because Drexler was way more indulgent in total fantasy, coining batshit insane concepts such as grey goo.

Nanotechnology doesn't have any problems, really. This article isn't saying nanotech isn't cool, just all the cool shit people have come up with don't/can't exist.

First problem with nano computers is that in the molecular world, shit gets really weird. Water feels like silly putty, and flying through the air requires more energy per square nanometre than a Boeing 747.

Then there's heat dissipation. A nano computer would heat up so much, all of your little nano bots would just sit down and cry before being vaporised. That's just cruel.

The real problem with nanotechnology is the hype people use to get more money from wherever. If your girlfriend wants you to get her a super expensive tub of nanotechnology anti-wrinkle cream, just get her a fucking tub of vegetable oil.